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HOWL

  • 14-12-2012 11:36am
    #1
    HelloGiggles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    I bought HOWL Directed by Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman. Starring James Franco on DVD recently-

    I'd be really interested in poetry so I thought it was interesting, i'm also a big James Franco fan.

    I enjoyed it over all- the documentary approach was interesting because it was based on actual interviews that Allen Ginsberg did in the past- But I felt it was telling us too much instead of showing us- particularly when it would switch back to an interview set up, I felt it would take me out of the story.--


    As you can see above..

    perhaps if James Franco wasn't the lead, I would have turned it off. :confused:


    I know this isn't a recent film-I'm just wondering what other thought of it?


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  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,076 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I saw it at the IFI a couple of years ago and briefly reviewed it here. I remember thinking it was technically very good, but the character of Ginsberg himself left me wondering why he was a worthy subject for a film.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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